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Post by Wally Mayo »

DAWS 1.0e
Erase map still doesn't work. I get the white square at top left, and rest of map is unchanged.

Reimplementing "undo last action" (we had in last major version) would help functionality in general use and expecially in troubleshooting and changing variables.

Fonts for station plots are still perfect, but the weather symbols (rain, snow, showers) is so small they are distorted at best, and too small for discrimination at worst - snow at Jefferson NC this morning looked like rain on my map - the astericks were so small they looked like dots. I know ... this is mainly a problem at smaller font sizes, but the last major DA had absolutely fantastic wx symbols even at 8 point Arial Narrow.

I see your comment on RCM, and that it wasn't working in the last major DA. There may have been site/token challenges for some, but I've always had full success with RCM in DA - thousands of maps looking good. That certainly is fine for it to be a lower priority for now, but think about later at least getting it to the level it was in DA.

Haven't tried scripts yet. (They were hanging after ftp action previously).

Good progress.
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Post by Tim Vasquez »

Please do a Map > Generate, then give me a detailed step by step of what keystrokes you use which lead up to the erase problems / white square. I have not encountered this under the new build.

As far as the weather symbols, can you post a map sample so I can see what is happening. We are using Truetype weather symbols now which are more scalable (for big and small plots) which was not possible in the old DA.

Also please confirm you see Digital Atmosphere V1.0e at the top.

Tim
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Post by Wally Mayo »

Here's a crop of old and new depictions of wx symbols. Yeah, I knew you went to truetype. But that may be at quite a price if the wx symbols are forced to be that small or, cannot be independently sized (from rest of plot).
I don't know how to include a pic here, so URL to
http://www.weatherroanoke.com/old.gif
http://www.weatherroanoke.com/new.gif
for comparisons (I used same Arial Narrow 8 pt. font for each - for "professional looking" plots)

And wow, okay - If I generate a map (replacing same map generated before), then the ERASE works! plots and radar.
Good. (Others mentioning the problem will need to know that)
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Post by Tim Vasquez »

Well, I can always add a scaling factor in Preferences for the weather symbols. And if you see a weather symbol that is impossible to read compared to others in the same set, let me know which one it is (QC and check the ww value). A lot of the symbols are inherently problematic because of the amount of illustrative detail involved, however.

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Post by PhilLayton »

Tim, I plot in small fonts - size 10, and while I have accepted your advice to increase the size of the font - which brings up larger weather symbols I need to go to Font 24 or so to actually see them.

The irony is that in DA2000, Fog and mist were small - now they are are super size, while the rain & snow have gone the other way and are difficult to tell. Rain or Snow showers are impossible to see in DAWS, but one could just make them out in DA2000..

A scaleable factor would be nice.

PS could someone tell me how to get an image on here too as copy paste does not seem to work....

Phil
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Post by Wally Mayo »

Oh yes, a scalable on the wx symbols would be nice.

Now ... if map is black (land), then radar just is masked out by the black. It doesn't come through like it does on light colors. Any chance the nexrad colors could be electable to be absolute?
See http://www.weatherroanoke.com/testmap.gif

Thanks for the tip on digatmos.nex - that will do as a solution for optional/new radar colors!
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Post by Wally Mayo »

Version 1.0e

Scripts that involve data retrieval still hang up. That is, the retrieval window just doesn't go away, and the script stops there. Script data retrieval is fairly important.

Now that I think about it, and after having looked closer at the truetype font , I'm not as convinced that scaling the wx symbols separately will work well, because some symbols like light (two line) fog will make for a HUGE symbol area between temp and dew point.

I know truetype is nice windows operation, but unless there are unrelated reasons it NEEDS to be that way, I wouldn't choose the truetype solution for, well, at least appearance. If truetype is certain, then I guess some editing on the font might help the symbols scale better with each other (i.e. putting the two lines for light fog closer together).
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Post by Wally Mayo »

Version 1.0e

Buoy plotting is not happening for the large part. A few are, but ... look at the comparison pics here...
(same data/time from Albany, buoys only, DA and DAWS)

http://www.weatherroanoke.com/DAbuoys.gif
http://www.weatherroanoke.com/DAWSbuoys.gif

They are important for good analysis near coastal areas.
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Post by Wally Mayo »

Okay, on buoys...

It seem that the longer reports don't plot. Example:
42036 02131 99285 70845 46/// /3204 10180 20094 40158 53017 91250
22200 00195 10501 20401 329// 40501 70007 333 91206 555 11046
22048 31232 43007 61249 316045 311051 315041 320044 316048 318047=

While shorter reports do. Example:
42039 02131 99288 70861 46/// /2906 10184 20082 40160 51014 91250
22200 00203 10401 20401 70006 333 91207 555 11061 22063=

Something must be chokeing here on data length, handling.

Maybe this will be a clue (or maybe I'm missing something else).

And ...
Omit highs and lows in ASUS bulletins does not work (they still plot)
What would be nice (a suggestion I made for last DA) was to have a clickable box to disable ANALYSIS highs and lows.
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Post by Wally Mayo »

Confirmed ....

When I edited the buoy report from the non-plotting:
42036 02131 99285 70845 46/// /3204 10180 20094 40158 53017 91250
22200 00195 10501 20401 329// 40501 70007 333 91206 555 11046
22048 31232 43007 61249 316045 311051 315041 320044 316048 318047=

down like this, (to format/size of buoy type that would plot):
42036 02131 99285 70845 46/// /3204 10180 20094 40158 53017 91250
22200 00195 10501 20401 70007 333 91206 555 11046 22048=

buoy would then plot.

This was the model of a plotting buoy:
42039 02131 99288 70861 46/// /2906 10184 20082 40160 51014 91250
22200 00203 10401 20401 70006 333 91207 555 11061 22063=

Something in that extra data is erroring and disallowing plots.
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